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  • Survival Analysis
  • Medical Statistics

Background:

  • Modern medical advancements improve survival but do not always lead to cures.
  • Disease recurrence in non-cured patients is influenced by covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity (random effects).
  • Dependent censoring, common in biomedical studies (e.g., cancer patients), complicates survival analysis.

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  • To introduce a novel multivariate joint frailty mixture cure model for recurrent event data.
  • To effectively capture individual heterogeneity and induce dependent censoring in survival models.
  • To account for the probability of cure after each recurrence event.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a joint frailty model incorporating covariates, frailties, event incidence time, and latent cure status.
  • Utilizing complementary log-log and logistic link functions to model cure probability.
  • Employing the Monte Carlo Expectation-Maximization (MCEM) algorithm for likelihood-based estimation.
  • Conducting Monte Carlo simulations to assess finite sample properties of estimators.

Main Results:

  • Simulation results indicate unbiased and consistent lifetime and frailty parameter estimates.
  • The proposed cure frailty models with dependent frailties demonstrated a superior fit to real data compared to models with identical frailty structures.
  • Lower Akaike information criteria (AIC) values supported the improved fit of the developed models.

Conclusions:

  • The developed joint frailty mixture cure models effectively handle heterogeneity and dependent censoring in recurrent event data.
  • The models provide a better fit for real-world biomedical data, including hospital readmissions for colorectal cancer recurrence.
  • This approach enhances the analysis of disease recurrence and cure probabilities in patient populations.